"Owwwwww." I grumbled, standing up wearily. I heard the others get up as well, and then felt someone's head leaning on my back. "Get off my back Ty."
"I'm over here Aura. That would be Atton who's leaning on you." She smirked.
"Atton. Get off of me."
"Hold on. Just let the dizziness go away first." He muttered into my shirt.
"Careful there. You've survived one spectacular crash." A voice I knew all too well stated.
"Bao-Dur!" I shouted happily, moving forward which made Atton have to grab onto me to keep from falling over.
"Long time no see Bao!" Tyla grinned, also walking up to him.
"Ah General! It's been a while since I've seen you and Aura! How have things been?" He questioned in that calm voice of his. There was a beeping noise and I glanced around to see where it was coming from. A little round droid was hovering a couple inches away from Bao's head, beeping erratically at us. "Remo!" I tried to jump at him, but Atton was holding me down by the waist.
"No. Still not moving." He mumbled childishly.
"Get off of me! You know good and well you're not dizzy anymore!" I said prying him off of me.
"It was a good cover up though." He grinned slyly.
(Tyla's P.O.V)
"General? When did Aura get involved with this pilot?" Bao questioned, turning the big brother protection switch on like he used to.
"Don't worry Bao. It's not serious. They flirt with each other all the time." I explained, patting him on the shoulder.
"Don't be so sure about that General. Things happen." Bao said wisely.
"It'll take a long time for Aura to think anything of it though. She's so oblivious to it."
"Good point." He laughed.
"What are we waiting for guys? Let's go find our ship!" Aurali shouted.
"Yeah, yeah. We're coming!" I hollered.
(Aurali's P.O.V)
"So Bao! What were you doing out here?" I asked him.
"Running from mercenaries."
"Wonderful. That means we'll have more trouble." Atton muttered.
"And they'll be after us too." Tyla mumbled.
"Who do you think shot your plane down in the first place?"
"We should keep moving and try to avoid them as much as possible."
"Not gonna happen Ty. I see a droid up there watching us. The mercenaries already know exactly where we are unfortunately." I pointed out, watching as the droid disappeared.
"Stupid droids. Can't trust the suckers." Atton grumbled, glaring at Remo.
"Leave Remo alone Atton. We have more important matters to worry about right now."
"Fine. I'm still watching it though."
After taking down tons of mercenaries we finally got to the console where we could locate the ship. "It seems that your ship is in the polar region, at some illegal docking site. There's a force field around it but there's nothing there. Strange." Bao muttered.
"Great! How do we get there?" Tyla asked him irritably.
"We need a ship."
"We don't have a ship Bao! If we had a ship we wouldn't be looking for one right now!" She shouted.
"Calm down General. There's a working ship in the military base over there. We can use it to go get your ship." He explained.
"Why didn't you say that sooner? Let's go!"
"Why don't you ever call me General, Bao?" I asked him.
"Because you weren't my General. You were more like my little sister." He laughed at me.
"But I'm older than Tyla!" I complained.
"You are?" Atton questioned curiously.
"Yes! I'm twenty a year older!"
"Stop complaining and come on already. We don't have time for this Aura." Tyla said. We all walked into the base and as soon as we entered we were attacked by turrets.
"Crap!" I shouted, jumping back. Poisonous gas started seeping through the floor and we all backed away even more.
"We only have two masks!" Tyla yelled.
"You two run by the turrets so you won't get in the gas! We'll turn off the turrets so they don't kill you!" They both nodded and made a run for it while me and Tyla ran to the console and shut the stupid things off.
"Now we just need to make sure we avoid the gas." I sighed.
"Easier said than done." Bao-Dur responded.
"Let's just hurry up and get through here." Tyla said, pulling out her lightsaber and stabbing the force shield. It flickered off and we all followed after her. After we had fought every droid and opened up the door to the hanger, we went to the shuttle that would be taking us to the polar region. We were about to get on the shuttle and leave the base, when something started firing at us.
"Not another droid!" Atton groaned.
"It's like the mother of all droids." I muttered, staring up at the towering droid in front of me.
"Well don't just stand there and let it attack you!" Tyla shouted and started to attack it. I hit it with my Force lightning but it didn't do much damage.
"Maybe a grenade will work." I laughed, pulling out a plasma grenade. "Everyone get back!" I shouted and threw the grenade at the droid. It exploded and sent pieces of metal flying everywhere. A piece of metal cut up my arm when it flew by but other than that I wasn't hit.
"That could've killed us all!" Tyla hollered, smacking me upside the head.
"Sorry!"
"Think before you do something like that. You could've gotten yourself killed." Atton sighed.
"I agree. Something bad could've happened." Bao-Dur said.
"Alright! I'm sorry! Let's just go already." I said boarding the ship. It didn't take long to get to the polar region and when we did, we got shot down yet again. We crash landed and I was knocked out cold when my head slammed against the ship. When I finally came to, we were all lying in the snow and three HK-50 droids were standing near by. Tyla was already up, and the others were still out of it.
"Ty. Can I please just Force lightning all of them?" I shouted, glaring at the stupid droids who had dared shoot us down.
"Go ahead. I don't feel like messing with them anyway." She replied.
I grinned widely at the three droids. "You picked the wrong people to shoot down." I laughed and commenced to destroying them all with my Force lightning. "Haha! Synchronized DEATH!" I shouted, electrocuting them all at the same time.
"You're insane Aura." Atton mumbled.
"She always has been." Bao-Dur replied.
"Did you have fun Aura?" Tyla asked, laughing at me.
"Yeah! Now let's go before more of those things come! I don't think I could take on another round of them."
"Ok. I think I see something over there. Maybe it's a door." We rushed to the door and jerked it open, but then we were face to face with three women in all white, with white hair to match.
"Drop your weapons, and no one will get hurt." The main girl stated.
"Over my dead body!" I growled at her.
"Put down your weapons. I sense they mean us no harm." Kreia muttered.
"Really? Because I think otherwise." Tyla glared at them.
"Just do it!" She shouted at both of us.
"Alright. No need to go psycho on us." I muttered, placing my lightsaber on the floor.
"All of them."
"Aw! Come on! You can't be serious! Not this again!" We both yelled. After putting all of our weapons down, we glanced at them.
"Can we go now?" I questioned.
"You two follow me." The main one said again.
"Wait! What about the others?" I asked her.
"They will be fine."
"Alright. But if any of them are hurt I'm coming after you." I glared.
"I don't like this Ty."
"You think I do? We're probably walking into a trap!"
"I never thought I'd see you two again after your exile." A cold voice said making us look up.
"Atris." Tyla growled and tried very hard to stay calm but she would be bitching in her head.
"Can I kill her? Please? No one has to know."
"You can't kill her Ty! She has our ship! And if we do then her handmaidens will kill Atton and Bao!"
"Damn it!"
"What are you two doing here?" She questioned, glaring at Tyla.
"We came to get our ship back! Now hand it over!" Tyla snarled.
"Such rage. That is why you followed Revan to war. So you could fight! You enjoyed fighting and it led you to the Dark side." She stated.
"I went because I couldn't stand to sit back and watch innocent people die like you were doing! I'm not that cold hearted you snowy bitch!" Tyla exclaimed.
"I beg you pardon! I am a Jedi! It is against the Code to do such a thing! Unlike you and your friends wild ideas! You were out of control and I'm surprised they didn't exile you sooner! The war was the final step in your betrayal and the Council would put up with it no longer!"
"You know you'd be saying that in Mandalorian right now if we hadn't gone to help." I stated.
"We would've helped when the time was right! But you had to go against the Council and straight into war!" She shouted.
"When were you gonna help? When we had already lost?"
"We were trying to protect the Code!"
"The Code? You let innocent people die because of teachings? Jedi are protectors of peace! Not lazy bums who sit on their asses all day, watching people get slaughtered!" I roared.
"That is a horrible excuse! Do you tell yourself that so you can sleep soundly at night and not think about the people you let suffer?"
"Silence! I will not be tainted by your Dark sided ways any longer!"
"Do we look Dark sided to you?" I shouted. "Go look for the Sith if you want to find some Dark sided people! They've following us around since Peragus!"
"The Sith? You speak the truth. But why would they be after you two?"
"Because we're the last Jedi." Tyla smirked.
"Nonsense! The Force left you when you were exiled."
"And that's why I can still do this." Tyla grinned, using Force push on her to move her back some.
"How is this possible?"
"We're just that amazing." I laughed.
"Still you are exiled, and I have kept your lightsabers to remind myself of the treason you committed." She explained, bringing out our lightsabers. Tyla backed up some as I edged closer to her.
"Give me that back." I growled, my eyes locked on the saber in her left hand.
"Do you not understand? You are no longer Jedi. And a lightsaber is the symbol of a Jedi." She sneered.
"I'm going to kill her!"
"If I couldn't neither can you!"
"And you are? If you're such a great Jedi why aren't you helping us stop the Sith! We're more Jedi than you'll ever be! We're going to find the surviving Masters and bring them together to stop the Sith while you sit here in your Academy and hold on to the memories of the past!" She faltered when I said this.
"I am the Jedi here, not you two! I am not the one held down by emotions of anger and hate like you!" Atris hissed.
"Just admit it Atris. You hate me. You would rather see me dead than standing here, right in front of you. You wished for my death so much during the war that it killed you on the inside to see me return." Tyla taunted, taking a step closer to the master. I tried to pull her back, but the blonde exile was enjoying herself far too much.
"I am better than these petty arguments of yours, exile. You are simply trying to push me into violent emotions." Atris fired back, but it was clear from her stance and voice she was having a hard time controlling herself. Tyla merely rolled her eyes and stepped forward again.
"Don't deny it. You felt so much anger and hate for me that you often wondered if you were falling into the darkness. I had everything that you didn't. I had best friends that would do anything for me, I was a leader, and I had the strength to go to the war when you were held back by fear. And, just to make it better, you adored me. I was your hero, and you looked up to me. To see me supposedly betray everything you held close to your frozen heart almost broke you. Yet, you still wonder if I was right. You can feel it. I was, and you hate yourself more than you hate me for being a coward." Tyla growled, so close to Atris now they were face to face. There was a flash of movement and Atris screeched in rage before reaching up and slapping Tyla hard. Tyla continued to glare at her defiantly even with blood running down her cheek.
"How dare you! Malachor V should have been your grave." She hissed angrily, and when Tyla spoke, it was eerily calm.
"You would say that. Except you would rather kill me yourself. You would much rather have my blood on your hands and your hands alone, wouldn't you?" Tyla spoke calmly, and then something happened between the two. There was something in the blonde's eyes that made it perfectly clear who the victor of the verbal battle was, and Atris backed off.
"Take your weapons and leave." My jaw dropped.
"Okay. Will do." I stated simply, reaching my hand out for my lightsaber and letting it fly into my hand. Tyla got hers reluctantly and then we went to find the others.
"Let's hurry up and get out of this place." Tyla sighed, running a hand through her hair.
"Yeah. I don't think I can stand being in here much longer." I stopped one of the handmaidens and she stared at me warily.
"Yes?"
"Where are our friends at?"
"Down that hallway." She stated, pointing to a hallway on the left of us.
"Thanks!" We ran down the hallway and into the room they were being kept captive. Both Bao and Atton were knocked out when we got in there, only Kreia was awake.
"Did you find what you were looking for?" She questioned us.
"What exactly were we looking for? If you mean the Hawk then hell yeah we did." I told her.
"I think she meant Atris." Tyla muttered, shaking her head at me.
"You've been with that fool too long." Kreia murmured.
"Nope! I've always been like this." I laughed. "Now let's get the force cages open." I said, shutting them off.
"I'm gonna see if Bao is alright." Tyla stated. "Go check on Atton."
"Alright." I walked over to Atton and kneeled by him. "Hey Atton! Time to go." I said, poking him. He grunted in reply and slowly opened his eyes.
"Aura? When did you get back? We were about to bust out and find you." He mumbled, sitting up.
"You okay? You seem kinda out of it." I asked, looking at him worriedly.
"It's nothing. I'm fine." He explained, standing.
"You sure? You aren't sick are you?" I questioned, feeling his forehead to see if he had a fever.
"I'm fine. Don't worry about it." He stated, grabbing my hand and removing it from his forehead. I stared warily at him. "I'm okay! Trust me! Let's just get out of here."
"So we're dropping you off at Nar Shaddaa right?"
"No. I think I'll stay with you a while. You know, make sure you don't get into any trouble. Who knows, I might save your skin one day."
"Thanks. That means a lot to me Atton." I grinned, hugging him. He tensed up for a second and then reluctantly wrapped his arms around me and hugged me back.
"Yeah, yeah. Now let's get going. I really want to get out of here."
"Alright. Come on." I said, grabbing his wrist and pulling him along. We walked out and made our way to the ship and found T3 in a force cage also.
"That's what you get for taking the Hawk out for a joyride! Not so smart now are you?" Atton taunted him.
"Be nice to T3 for once!"
"Dwo-beet-be-do."
"Atris uploaded things from you? Why would she do that?" Tyla muttered thoughtfully.
"Beep-do-be."
"But you got stuff from her too? What kind of stuff?"
"How can you understand that tin can?" Atton questioned incredulously.
"We worked with them a lot during the war." I said. "And don't say you don't know what he's saying. I've seen you respond to things he says."
"Only bits and pieces." He replied hastily.
"Whatever. What is it you got from her?"
"Do-beep-dwo."
"WHAT?" Me and Tyla shouted.
"You have our trial?" Tyla shouted.
"Dwooo."
"Okay. Let's just get back to the ship and we can watch it there. Thank you T3." We boarded the ship and stood around the holoplayer as T3 uploaded the trial.
"You have been summoned to face your sentencing." Kavar stated, looking at Tyla in particular. I heard Tyla growl and glanced over to see her gritting her teeth.
"Calm down Ty." I said, sending calming thoughts through the bond. She nodded and we continued to watch the trial.
"You went against the Council and now it is time for your punishment. Do you have anything to say about it?" Atris questioned.
"We stand by our decision. If we hadn't gone more people would've died." We both said in unison.
"I see you're still standing by what you said before." Zez spoke up.
"Which means we have no other choice..." Vash muttered, looking at me sadly.
"Master Vash." I mumbled sadly, as the holo showed her image.
"You two are to be exiled. The decision is final. You two are too unruly to let go unnoticed. What you did cannot be forgiven." Vrook stated, glaring at the two of us.
"I remember this part." Tyla laughed.
"What's so funny?" Atton questioned, confused.
"Well you know what Vrook!" Aurali shouted, "Up yours!" She growled, flipping him off and then taking my lightsaber and shoving it into the stone in the middle of the room. Then I stalked out of the room furiously. Tyla took her time, activating her lightsaber and flourishing it slightly. The silver light reflected off her face, showing her closed eyes. Then she stabbed her lightsaber into the center stone, right next to mine, her eyes closed the entire time. Then she stalked out of the room, her head held high. The holo continued to play as the Masters spoke to each other.
"We should have told them the real reason why they were exiled." Vash muttered to Kavar and Zez.
"They will find out eventually. Until then all we can do is hope the Force will watch over them. Nothing more." Zez stated, patting Vash on the back reassuringly.
"We shouldn't have done that to them. What if something happens to them and they never find out the real reason?" Kavar questioned both of them.
"Just have hope in them Kavar. They're strong. They will be fine." Vash stated. Then the holo cut off.
"I didn't know about that part." I muttered to Tyla.
"Neither did I." She replied.
I grinned widely at her after the holo sunk in some more. "Kavar was worried about you!" I laughed at her.
"Shut up!" She glared at me. "Vash was worried about you!"
"Ah yes! But there is a difference! Master Vash is worried about me because she's my Master and loves me like a daughter! Now Kavar on the other hand..." I trailed off.
"Dear Force won't you ever shut up about that!"
"Never! Not in a bazillion years! It's too much fun!"
"Dwooo."
"What is it T3?" Tyla asked the little droid.
"Beep-do-deet."
"You have where the Masters are too?" I exclaimed, hugging him.
"Show us where they are." He turned on another holo and the first face was Vrook.
"Ugh! Vrook is on Dantooine? Why couldn't it have been someone else at the Enclave? But no! He had to be the one!" Tyla shouted.
"Zez is on Nar Shaddaa, Kavar is on Onderon, Vash is on Korriban, and then Atris on Telos. That's everyone from our trial!" I hollered.
"It seems pretty suspicious if you ask me." Atton muttered, looking over my shoulder at T3. "Maybe he's setting us up."
"He's not out to get us Atton! Get that through that stubborn skull of yours!" I told him, tapping his head with my fist.
"So I guess we're on a hunt for the Masters then? We should stop at Coruscant first then and get some supplies. It'll help us a lot." Tyla said.
"Damn it. I was hoping we wouldn't have to go there." I grumbled.
"Why is that?" Atton asked.
"I was trained in Coruscant until I was seventeen." I explained.
"Then she came to Dantooine where she met me, Rev, and Malak!"
"You two are insane." He sighed.
"Set a course for Coruscant! It's Master hunting time!" I cheered.
"Why do I get stuck with the psychotic Jedi?"
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